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Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja KytöEdited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 97] 2020
► pp. 63–78
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 97] 2020
► pp. 63–78
Chapter 5Saying, crying, replying, and continuing
Speech reporting expressions in Early Modern English
This chapter investigates the form, frequency, and function of speech reporting expressions in Early Modern English, such as quod she in “I perceiue now [$ (quod she) $] how mishap doth follow me” (CED, D1FGASCO, 1573). We focus on the use in the prose fiction texts in Periods 1 and 3 in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 (CED). The study points to developments over time, in the distribution of individual verbs as well as groups of verbs with similar functions. Variation is also evident in the word order of the speech reporting expression in relation to the represented speech and in the internal order of the speech reporting expressions (subject+verb or verb+subject).
Keywords: speech representation verbs, direct speech, Early Modern English fiction, semantic-functional categories, word order
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background
- 3.Material and methodology
- 4.Results
- 4.1Individual speech reporting expressions and functional categories
- 4.2Structural characteristics of speech reporting expressions
- 5.Conclusion
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